Joey Porter’s Pit Bulls

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About me

Gender Male
Occupation "Bahdjes? We don' kneed no steenkin' bahdges ... "
Location Pittsburgh, Pa.
Introduction What? What about "Joey Porter's Pit Bulls" DON'T you understand??
Interests Writing, literature, sports, people, participatory entertainment, music, advertising, fun, travel, screenplays, movies, song lyrics, visual arts, technology, architecture, history, blues, jazz, dogs, blogs, out-of-town newspapers, highjinks, tomfoolery, shenanigans, etc., and what was the question again?
Favorite Movies Film Noir and pretty much anything by Alfred Hitchcock, the Coen Brothers and Quentin Tarrantino plus: Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski, Bad Santa, Eastern Promises, Traitor, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Animal House, Casablanca, The Godfather I & II, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Out of the Past, The Blues Brothers, Miracle at Santa Anna, Cool Hand Luke, The Verdict, Slap Shot, Four Brothers, Little Big Man, On the Waterfront, No Country for Old Men, Scarface, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, Von Ryan’s Express, A Bridge Too Far, The Great Escape, Bullitt, Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Blue Dahlia, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Play Misty for Me, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Maltese Falcon, The Quiet Man, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Get Shorty, It's a Wonderul Life, and (yep) just about anything in the film noire genre.
Favorite Music Blues, Jazz, Classical, Indie-Rock, Alt-Country, Bluegrass, Reggae, Psychedelic Rock, Cajun, Zydeco, B.B. King, Curtis Mayfield, Duke Ellington, Eric Spaulding, James Brown, Maceo Parker, Levon Helm, Funk, Soul, Etta James, Al Green, Aimee Mann, Joan Osborne, Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley, Big Band, Neil Young, an album called "Super Session" by Al Kooper Steven Stills and Mike Bloomfield, Miles Davis, The Dead, The Band, Bob Dylan, Chet Baker, WYEP-FM, WRCT-FM, Johnny Cash, John Prine, Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits, Emmylou Harris, The Stones, Bob Dylan, Billy Price, The Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, etcetera, etcetera, and why did you ask?
Favorite Books Pretty much anything by Raymond Chandler, Elmore Leonard, Dashiell Hammett, Mark Twain, Hunter S. Thompson, T.C. Boyle, Carl Hiaasen, Joseph Conrad, Michael Connelly, Jorge-Luis Borges, Scott Turow, George Orwell, Ken Follett, Herb Cain, Herman Melville, O. Henry, Thomas Pynchon, The Millenium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, William Shakespeare, and a book called The World at Night (by Alan Furst), plus another by Furst, The Spies of Warsaw.

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